Mark
Sorry, but I'm with Carol and Michael, also. I'm trying to hear it as accentual, but it fails me. It is too heavy a beat.
A random line:
For the man who knows only one speech is an ox in a paradise orchard,
Stress by ear:
1232341341231241341
123/23/41/34/123/124/134 1
Heavily substituted.
But I'll repeat the question I just posted on the other thread. What's the difference how we label it? Will it change the way we read the line? Will it change the meaning? Does it matter, even, if we both call it metrical?
How does your label change the poem; make it different than my label?
ps - I'm assuming, BTW, you'd call that line accentual tet?
[This message has been edited by Jerry Glenn Hartwig (edited August 20, 2005).]
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